Year: 2008
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Trying out bbpress
My wordpress plugins generate a lot of comments. Personally, I find it can be pretty hard to scroll through all the comments, and it can be quite slow to load as well. I have decided to try out bbpress for comments on my wordpress plugins. I created a forum for each plugin. I have turned…
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TeX Live 2008 — reasons to upgrade
New features in pgf/tikz TeX Live 2008 was finally released about a month ago. I am a member of TUG, so I should be getting a DVD of it sometime soon, but today I finally decided I couldn’t wait, and I would just download it. The main impetus came after reading a discussion in comp.text.tex,…
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Beamer fragile frames
If you want to include verbatim text, say for some program code, in a frame in beamer, you have to pass the fragile option to the frame, like so: \begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{a fragile frame} \begin{verbatim} some verbatim text here \end{verbatim} \end{frame} Though latex usually doesn’t really care about whitespace at the beginning of a line, in…
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Why doesn’t Mac update standard UNIX utilities?
I am currently teaching a course on programming for linguists. We are using python, but for the first few classes, I have been going over some standard UNIX utilities like cd, ls and such, plus using regular expressions with grep and sed. I actually don’t use sed that much. I tend to reach for perl,…